What Are You Reading

Forgive me for this, but I’ve forgotten which poster used to periodically ask the board what everyone is reading. These were like a counterpart to the drinking thread.

I enjoyed these for many reasons, not least of which because of the diversity of responses. Some were avidly devouring genre fiction, some philosophy. Some were consuming pop science while others pop history. Others posted selections more or less random while the opposite was posted by still others, selections with connected themes and goals, like school coursework.

These were important threads. There are many reasons this could be said, but one reason is that they demonstrated the kinds of diversified thinking that often flowers after leaving LDSinc.

So whomever you are, if you are still around, please post these again. I remember particularly liking your style (I forget everybody’s name, but know the style when I see it).


On my side table today:

James Baldwin - Collected Essays

Elizabeth Hardwick - Collected Essays

John Ashbery - Collected Poems 1956-1987

Erich Neumann - The Origin and History of Consciousness

Mark Edmundson - Self and Soul


What books are you reading lately?

Human

The Origin of Satan - Elaine pagels

A History of God - Karen Armstrong

The Swerve - Steven Greenblat

The Silk Road a New History of The World - Peter Frankopan

Want me to autograph it for you? ;-)

You're literate?

Want to read that VS Ramachandran, saw him on TV.

Also just read Jimmy Carter "Hour Before Daylight."

I'd rather drink...

Did you become a Satanist?

Bobby Kennedy, a raging spirit.

Me too

Fire and Fury. Also working on Bobby Kennedy a Raging Spirit and Growing Up Fisher by Joely Fisher

Just finished We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson a few minutes ago.

Romanticizes agoraphobia and delusional fantasizing.

Nothing worthy of posting here.

I'm working my way through my favorite author's oeuvre:


"How To Be A Mafioso on the Week-ends"

"Stuff 'n Things: What's in Your Wife's Purse!"

"Ascending to the Depths: How Colleges Ruined America"

"The Cosmos: 99% Nothing, .06% Hydrogen, & Us"

"Historical Records: Fan Fiction!"

- -Judic West


"The River that Flows Uphill"

- - William H. Calvin

"The Cosmos: 99% Nothing, .06% Hydrogen, & Us"

Does that volume include discussion of the Higgs boson?

Just wondering. . .

Lot's Wife Wrote:
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> "The Cosmos: 99% Nothing, .06% Hydrogen, & Us"
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> Does that volume include discussion of the Higgs
> boson?


More hick’s Busom, is my guess...

One of my goals is to read more. The problem is that one of the only times I have to read is after the day is over and the work is done, which means that I'm often asleep before I get a page in.

Lately I've been finishing books that I started a while back, but for whatever reason didn't finish.

I'm trying to wrap up Sagan's "Demon haunted world." right now. Then I want to read "Struggle for power" by Theodore Draper.

What's struggle for power about?

It's a history of the founding of the US. I've heard it approaches things from an interesting point of view, so I want to check it out.

It sounds good.

Night School, by Lee Child
Column of Fire by Ken Follet
Being Nixon by Evan Thomas
Sinatra's Century by David Lehman
Invisible Library by Geneviev Cogman
Colossus by Colin Falconer
So- I have a thriller, Medieval England, Bio of President Nixon, Bio of Frank Sinatra,Fantasy about magic in libraries, a staple on my reading list, and Ancient Rome with elephants.

Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff



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Kindle tried to act like they didn't have it, but I kept after it, and finally got the order through. Looking forward to it.

Great idea. Didn't know it was on Kindle already.

Me too.

Mine was ordered on Friday, I keep hitting "refresh" on the Amazon orders update page......

refresh......

tap tap tap......

Lying in Wait-Ann Rule

Oh, I meant to say I love true crime, particularly books by Ann Rule

Loved Ann Rule. Sorry to hear that she died a year or so ago

Journey of Souls, Newton, and Answers About the Afterlife , Olson ----- I find I need to review books I read over a year ago.

How to Rule the World From Your Couch ---- Day

Not reading but Updating my Utube knowledge of:

Remote viewing projects, RV discussions, Drawing Characters and use of chalk in art, and new Intuition information.



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Michael Tellinger "The Slave Species of God"
Zeccharia Sitchen translation of "The Lost Book Of Enki"

I just finished reading Stephen Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger series, and am about halfway through James Rollins' Sigma Force series.

Oh, I'm also reading RfM.

I want to get back into reading novels, so I'm reading, "The Girl on the Train." I never saw the movie, so it will be a surprise for me. But I'm enjoying the novel, so I might want to see the movie eventually.

It’s a good read, lots of twists!

I liked it

Ron Chernow’s Ulysses S. Grant. Like all of Chernow’s histories, it’s a brick but the writing flows off the page.

Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong with Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix It - Robert Reich

Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Thought: Tsongkhapa's Quest for the Middle View - Thupten Jinpa

An Open Heart - XIV Dalai Lama

next to my bed and I just keep buying more. I was a very avid reader most of my life. I always read the most books in elementary school classes and got awards for it.

BUT since I went through my poor years and couldn't allow myself to read or I wouldn't work if I read (work at home doing medical transcription, paid by line) and now that I don't have to work as much, but I do editing rather than regular typing (most of the time), I just can't bring myself to read when I'm done working. Once in a great while, I start a book and can't put it down, but that doesn't happen very often. I just noticed a book I bought last Christmas about a couple who helped save a lot of children during the Holocaust and another book by Eli Wiesel. I really need to get to those 2 at least.

Ok. I could say something like Plato’s Republic (for exmos, the Allegory of the Cave says it all), but not today.

Sue Grafton just died. She wrote alphabet detective novels that are really fun. I think the first one is ‘A for Alibi.’ The protagonist is a woman. The novels are fun and full of great mystery. She writes in such a way that you have to get to the end for the resolution. Fairly short novels, but worth the time.

Love Sue Grafton. The alphabet now ends at Y.

Maybe there'll the Z novel will be published posthumously.

"That's crazy! Name me any instance," he demanded, innocently, "when a book came out with a dead writer's name featured prominently, as if he or she were the author, when that was not the case!"

The family has already announced the alphabet ends with Y.

Is "Fire and Fury" worth reading, or should I wait until it is out in paperback?

I read almost half of it last night. It is good

When a sitting President threatens the Author, Publisher and his former Chief Advisor with a lawsuit if the book gets published, of course its worth reading, which is why its #1 on Amazon.

I read novels straight through. But with science, I usually have 2 or 3 books going at one time, reading a few pages at a time.

"The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane" by Lisa See

Just finished two Jodi Picoult books:

"Storyteller", (a holocaust narrative - heartbreaking!)

"Leaving Time" A teen's search for her mother, an animal
behaviorist who did research about empathy and grief among
elephants.

"Before We Were Yours" about the Georgia Tann adoption scandal in the 1930s.

"Thinking Fast and Slow"
"A Guide to Astrophysics for People in a Hurry"
"The Selfish Gene"

Don't care for fiction.
Love biographies, and real life accounts.

. Della Rees, "Angels Along the Way".

. Natalie Cole, "Love Brought me Back".

. Rosemary Clooney ("with Joan Bahthel").

."Nun", Mary Gilligan Wong (really liked!). (true basic story) (from Catholic nun to non-believer.) (Also a movie.)

."90 Minutes in Heaven" (True experience, by Don Piper wi Cecil Murphy). Best Seller.

. Bill Clinton (could hardily stand to read it, not finished).

. Hilary Clinton--couldn't stand to read it).

. Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls). So disliked her father, which made it annoying to read. J.W. made something of herself in spite of her looser parents.

. "Treason", Ann Coulter. (Always like her latest, and waiting for it to show up')

. Discourses of Brigham Young, compiled by John A.Widtsoe.

. Brigham Young: American Moses: By Church Historian, Leonard Arrington. Excellent. (One small item he wrote reg. history the church didn't like that he had included, so he was kicked out as Church Historian.)

. Maria Callas, "The Woman Behind the Legend", by Arianna Stassinopoulos.

. "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", "The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Lynne Truss. (Fun way to learn, and use as a reference.)

. "Jesus on Trial", David Limbauch, ("A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel.")

. "I Don't Have Enough FAITH TO be an ATHEIST." (Norman L. Geisler, Frank Turek.

. Charles Krauthammer, "Things That Matter, Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics". (#1 N.Y.Bestseller) (Brilliant man. In my opinion, a genius. Self changed from non-believer, to believer in Christiana)

. "THE TRUE JESUS", DAVID LIMBAUGH ("UNCOVERING THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST IN THE GOSPELS"), (The brother of the radio political commentator, Rush Limbaugh.)

. Amazing, and highly recommended: "akiane; her life, her art, her poetry". Starting out as home schooled, with no real outside world experiences, born to atheists parents. One of her best know works (paintings), is of Jesus, in prayer. (Converted her self from knowing nothing--0--about him.) Her self-taught narrative, poetry, and pictures.

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P: Plenty enough for now. :)

The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Li Zhi-Sui an Excellent Read.

"Forever Young" The autobiography of Astronaut John Young (who died yesterday)

"Into the Black" The behind the scenes story of the first space shuttle mission.

"Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion"

Recent reads over the last few months of note ...

A Pirate Looks at Fifty (Jimmy Buffett)
Chronic City (Johnathan Lethem) novel
Salinger bio by Shields & Salerno (really thick book)
The Wheel of Time (Castaneda anthology of quotations)
Fargo Rock city (Chuck Klosterman, about '80s hair metal)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
The Gunslinger (Stephen King; both the old & new versions)
I and Thou (Martin Buber)
The Conscious Mind (David Chalmers) philosophy

Just inherited 127 Louis Lamour leather bound books.

Also getting into a lot of reading on aging, gerontology, end-of-life type stuff and related thanatics-themed material in depression/bipolrity, assisted suicide, mortuary science, and so forth. Hilarious stuff!

Shock of Gray (Fishman)
Being Mortal (Gawane)
The Year of Magical Thinking (Didion)
A Widow's Story (Oates)
A Grief Observed (Lewis)
Life After Diagnosis (Pantilat)
The Living End (Brown)
How We Die (Nuland)

Fire and Fury

Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew - Bart Ehrman

Clevenger Gold: The True Story of Murder and Unfound Treasure - S.E. Swapp

The Whistler - John Grisham

The Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek

The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy - Leo Tolstoy

The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins

The Wright Brothers - David McCullough

Forgot to add that while not books or reading, I have become a fan of "The Great Courses" and watch the lectures over the internet. Mostly history courses. I also like You Tube where I watch woodworking how to videos. Also follow "Mormon Stories" by John Dehlin and the critiques of Global warming.

“Night” by Elie Wiesel
Your money or your life - Robin & Domniguez
To build a castle - Bukofksy

HH =)

"Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston. A non-fiction account of an archeological expedition into the jungles of Honduras in 2015.

Incidentally, of interest to EXMO's, as the book is providing background on archeology of the area, it mentions briefly the difficulties encountered by BYU archeologists with the church when their work failed to substantiate the BOM.

Call Me By Your Name: A Novel - André Aciman

Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience by David E. Presti.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark.

Just order the "Goddess of Anarchy, The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical".

I'm also rereading all of my Mary Stewart books. Mindless reading for audit season at work.

Then I plan to move on to a Russian history of the last Czar, too much thinking involved until next month.



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Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

I have always been a night reader, but have started reading about ten pages of this every morning. It's nice to read while my eyes and brain are fresh.

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

One of my book groups chose this book, and I almost skipped it because it's set in WWII, and I usually avoid that time period. I decided to listen to the audiobook while doing housework, and I'm glad I did. It's well written and compelling.

"The Tell-Tale Brain, A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human." by V.S. Ramachandran

Walter Isaacson's Biography of Leonardo da Vinci

"Promise Me, Dad" by Joe Biden

Ficciones, Jorge Borges

Thanks for this thread; I'm loving all of these recommendations.
I am currently reading Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World" and I really like it.

I recently read "Wesley the Owl". It's the story about a biologist that adopts a barn owl, non-fiction. I love it!

Next on my list is Joseph Smith Rough Stone Rolling. by Bushman

Isn't it great to not feel pressured to read the BOM every day?



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